Re: inserting new records without OIDs

Ahhhh. You are correct. Turns out I was failing to define my serial 'id'
attribute as a primary key. My bad. Thanks for the help.

MD

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin@pse-consulting.de]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 9:15 AM
>To: mdoggett@coas.oregonstate.edu
>Cc: [pgADMIN]
>Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] inserting new records without OIDs
>
>Matt Doggett wrote:
>
>>Ooops. I sent this yesterday to the wrong maillist address. Sorry.
I'll
>>repost here.
>>
>>MD
>>-----Original Message-----
>>When I create a new table that does not have OIDs (the Has OIDs
checkbox
>>is off and I'm using a serial column type to id my records), then I
>>CANNOT insert new data records using the Edit Data window.  There is
no
>>blank row (with an asterisk *) in which to enter new data.  In other
>>words, I've discovered that you MUST use OIDs to be able to insert new
>>records with the Edit window.
>>
>>
>Not true. Currently, you need either OID *or* a primary key. Obviously,
>that id column should get a pk.
>We'll extend the grid some time, to accept any other unique keys also.
>Still, defining a PK on every table is best practice.
>Defining a column as serial does *not* guarantee it's unique!
>
>Regards,
>Andreas